Well.

Since I (apparently) won't have my paper back to revise yet this weekend, and since I already cleaned my office (that was yesterday's between-meetings task), and since I have the necessary prep done for teaching next week, I think I may start some new project this weekend. (I have to be in town Saturday; I have a meeting at 10 am)

I'm just not sure yet what it's going to be. I think it will be one of these three:

a. Start the Linus Project quilt out of the cutesy-poo dog fabrics. This is going to be a simple cut-then-sew quilt and it's made of a limited palette of fabrics, so I won't have to lay it out to get the "right" arrangement - once the blocks are made, I can just sew them together in the predetermined order. Once it's done, I think I'm going to pay to have it quilted (Yeah, I know. But I like the idea of being able to deliver a finished quilt even if it costs me something, and doing machine quilting myself: meh.). I may even have enough of the fabrics to make two smallish identical or similar quilts.

b. Start the pi shawl that I've put some of the Noro sock yarn aside for. I don't like Noro sock yarn for socks, but it should be OK for a shawl. (Provided they didn't mess up the color sequence with a big knot in the skein like in the previous skein I had)

c. Pull out the Rosy-Fingered Dawn shawl kit that's been sitting in my stash for several years (since 2004, I think - I think that was the year of the trip to see Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mills), wind off the first color, and start the shawl. (The colors are subtle enough that I think I'm only going to wind them off as I need them, so I don't get confused and use the wrong one.

Yes, I know. I had talked about a couple other shawls earlier but seeing the Noro sockyarn and the Rosy-Fingered Dawn kit in my stash the other day made me think of starting them.

I'm actually leaning towards the Rosy-Fingered Dawn - while it's lace, it's not tee-toncy yarn lace, it's the slightly beefier "handspun feeling" Blackberry Ridge yarn. And the kit was a gift from my dad so it would be nice to actually let him know I'm working on it.